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Forward email to an outside account in Exchange

June 25, 2010
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It is not as simple as it sounds. You have Exchange, and want forward to an outside email address. With some other email servers, there is a one line entry where you can add an external account. Not so with Exchange. Lets me walk you through it. First, you need to create a contact. You [...]

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Enable Remote Administration in Windows 2008 Core Server

May 27, 2010
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When I first came across Windows 2008 Core, I was happy. Finally, a version of windows you could chisel down to just the base components that you needed. Microsoft did such a good job – that it is hard to configure it with the default settings No graphical tools are provided (Well there are a [...]

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Get to the recycle bin – even when it is hidden.

February 12, 2010
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Now this is a cool little time saver tip. Unfortunately this only works in XP, and 2000. Lets say you got lots of windows open, and you have a file or folder you want to quickly get to the recycle bin Just drag your file or folder to an empty spot on the task bar [...]

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Open a hidden control panel in Windows 7

January 27, 2010
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I have been hearing lots of chatter about this hidden feature in Windows 7. Everyone is calling it “God Mode” You will see why it is called that in a minute, but essentially it is a hidden control panel that gives you easy access to just about every setting in Windows 7. To get to [...]

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Connect to your VPN from the command line

October 21, 2009

I was setting up an offsite backup system for our source code. I wanted to use the VPN client within windows to connect the two machines. One of the problems with this idea is that I only wanted this connection to be active while the source code was being copied It turns out that it [...]

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